With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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